XiaoKJ
03-19-2005, 04:26 AM
BUGS
There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk,
fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it
accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy
things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage is that it has some support for
BSD disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only - the user
interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and more powerful than both fdisk and cfdisk. Moreover,
it can be used noninteractively.)
These days there also is parted. The cfdisk interface is nicer, but parted does much more: it not only resizes
partitions, but also the filesystems that live in them.
The IRIX/SGI type disklabel is currently not supported by the kernel. Moreover, IRIX/SGI header directories are
not fully supported yet.
The option `dump partition table to file' is missing.
SEE ALSO
cfdisk(8), mkfs(8), parted(8), sfdisk(8)
Linux 2.0 11 June 1998 FDISK(8)
Thus, I hereby wish that people will follow. Thank you. We want to see less tragedies of people losing their collections of porn.
:D
There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk,
fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it
accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy
things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage is that it has some support for
BSD disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only - the user
interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and more powerful than both fdisk and cfdisk. Moreover,
it can be used noninteractively.)
These days there also is parted. The cfdisk interface is nicer, but parted does much more: it not only resizes
partitions, but also the filesystems that live in them.
The IRIX/SGI type disklabel is currently not supported by the kernel. Moreover, IRIX/SGI header directories are
not fully supported yet.
The option `dump partition table to file' is missing.
SEE ALSO
cfdisk(8), mkfs(8), parted(8), sfdisk(8)
Linux 2.0 11 June 1998 FDISK(8)
Thus, I hereby wish that people will follow. Thank you. We want to see less tragedies of people losing their collections of porn.
:D